Is the modern military really scared of a baby?

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The Army should get its head out of the desert sand. The ability to give birth is no barrier to being a good soldier

Camp Bastion’s surprise baby came as no surprise to me. When I edited a
women’s weekly magazine, readers submitted stories with subjects such as: “I
thought I had terrible flatulence — an hour later I had baby Louise” too
often to be worth publishing. Most of these women weren’t “in denial” or
very young or medically ignorant. One, I recall, was a robust publican who
was changing beer barrels in the cellar when she suddenly found herself
pushing out her third child.

After I interviewed a woman with two vaginas — take that, Naomi Wolf — I
ceased to have any wonder left